PolyBrite’s environmentally friendly LED Light Stick RED
June 29, 2010 by admin
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- Three function switch provides Off, Steady and Flashing Mode
- Replaceable LR44 alkaline watch batteries last up to 200 hours
- Patented polymer/LED technology
- Waterproof to 100 ft
Product Description
PolyBrite’s environmentally friendly LED Light Stick, ideal for search and rescue training, can be carried on walks, or as a lighted novelty item. Presented in assorted colors, the LuxieLight has both a flashing and constant mode, and can be hooked onto just about anything for fun and higher visibility. LuxieLight uses PolyBrite’s patented polymer/LED technology and a three-function button switch. Using three replaceable LR44 alkaline button cell watch batteries, PolyBrite’s LuxieLight has the ability to provide illumination for up to 200 hours in the flashing mode, is water proof and environmentally safe.
Environmentally Friendly & Green Driving ? 4 Key Considerations to Own Hybrid Cars
June 28, 2010 by admin
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More and more people are turning to hybrid cars these days because of their promise of lesser fuel consumption and environmental friendliness. Hybrid cars, because they run on both fuel and battery-powered engines, consume less fuel, thereby reducing the price pressures on consumers in the midst of an global oil crisis. In addition, it also emits significantly less smog pollutants in the air, compared to traditional fuel-operated cars.
Indeed, there are a lot of advantages to owning hybrid cars. This is why even the US government is starting to show support by welcoming more models into the country and by encouraging American auto makers to make more units.
The Key Advantages of Hybrid Cars are as follows:
Efficiency – Hybrid cars are electrically operated and are thus able to function well and consistently at any motor speed. This is in contrast to conventional gas-powered engines, which tend to produce less power in low revolutions per minute episodes. Hybrid cars do not need to use transmissions to make their engines run at full capacity even at reduced speeds.
Economy – One of the advantages of hybrid cars is that the feature called “regenerative braking”. Since a hybrid car works using both electric power and fuel power, each can function by itself or conjunction, depending on which is stronger at the time of use. This means that both engines complement each other and do not simply bog one when one of them becomes weaker.
Convenience – Because hybrid cars are part battery powered, they do not create huge holes on the pocket, compares to users of traditional cars who feel the pain of the continuing oil price increases. Most hybrid cars, particularly the ones that are made in Japan, are also more compact and lightweight, making them easier to maneuver on the road. Other models, particularly those by American and European car makers also do not deviate from the stylish designs their regular counterparts adopt, so users don’t have to feel they are being left out in the style department.
Sustainability – Sure, hybrid cars are fairly new, so their immediate impact on the environment cannot be foreseen in the short term. However, over the course of time, the next generations will definitely be thankful for having a clean, pollution free world, thanks to hybrid vehicles. Most critics say that it is not the time to buy hybrid vehicles because they are expensive. However, when you consider the advantages, you really shouldn’t think twice. While you must be discerning in choosing the right model for your needs, this doesn’t mean you start hesitating. After all, when more people patronize hybrid cars, manufacturers will see the need to produce more and eventually bring its price at very affordable levels.
In time to come, environmentally friendly hybrid cars will be the order of the day.
Do check out my site for more information on hybrid cars and other environmentally friendly car tips.
Joey Lee has 17 years of business & marketing experience in the Insurance & Banking Industry, holds an Executive MBA, and a Platinum Ezine Author. Get the latest eco friendly hybrid green cars info at Environmentally Friendly Cars and much more at CngCar.org
Mothers & Others for a Livable Planet Guide to Natural Baby Care: Nontoxic and Environmentally Friendly Ways to Take Care of Your New Child
June 28, 2010 by admin
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A friendly, step-by-step parent’s resource for safe, practical, and affordable baby care.
No job is more important to you than taking care of your child. Mothers & Others for a Livable Planet understand this, and they want to help. For the last ten years, they’ve been a leading voice for raising children in natural, nontoxic, and environmentally friendly surroundings. Mothers & Others for a Livable Planet Guide to Natural Baby Care puts all of their pioneering research, advocacy, and support right at your fingertips. This wonderfully practical and accessible resource offers straightforward information and simple advice on how to reduce babies’ and children’s exposure to environmental toxins and embrace safer practices and “greener” products. Engagingly written and clearly organized for quick and easy reference, the book discusses:
- caring for yourself during pregnancy
- eliminating dangerous chemicals from your home
- breast-feeding and bottle-feeding
- affordable organic baby food
- nontoxic rugs, paints, clothing, toys, and furniture
- avoiding pollutants such as pesticides, dust mites, molds, microbes, chemical fumes, and cigarette smoke
- safe soaps, shampoos, and lotions
- environmentally sounder diapers, furniture, and other greener product choices. Amazon.com Review
For a decade, the nonprofit organization Mothers and Others for a Living Planet has been an advocate for raising children in natural, nontoxic, and environmentally friendly environments. Now, the editors of the Mothers and Others newsletter The Green Guide, Mindy Pennybacker and Aisha Ikramuddin, have compiled hundreds of suggestions into a comprehensive guidebook ideal for all parents concerned with providing their children with safe, “green” surroundings.Pennybacker and Ikramuddin provide details and suggestions for preparing baby’s room, taking care of yourself during pregnancy, diapering the natural way, feeding your child, avoiding PVC in toys, avoiding the dangers of installing new carpets in baby’s room (nonnatural carpets “offgas” VOCs–volatile organic compounds–and all carpets can become a trap for allergens and dust mites), and much more. It’s not all warnings and cautions, though; the “Raising (and Protecting) Your Naturalist Child” chapter discusses the importance of exposing your child to the natural world, including ways to encourage empathy for animals. A thorough listing of “green” resources, information, and Web sites rounds off this highly useful guide. –Ericka Lutz
Environmentally Friendly Cars ? Hybrid Cars the Road Warriors of Tomorrow
June 22, 2010 by admin
Filed under Hybrid CarsYou are an environmentally friendly person and have all the correct reasons to want to buy a Hybrid car. But buying hybrid cars can be a little more complicated than that. The complication is not whether to buy Hybrid cars but more on which to choose from, given the maze of hybrid cars currently in the market.
And just like in any purchasing process, there are certain considerations to be made before you could narrow down with your choices.
The Hybrid Car – A More Intelligent Vehicle. The nature of hybrid cars, or hybrid electric vehicle, HEV has two energy sources for its engines, namely electric and combustion. In an ordinary scenario, like cruising along the highway, the Hybrid car generally runs on one or the other of the sources, until the driver needs more power such as greater acceleration. When this happened, the two engines will operate in unison. Hybrid HEV cars are low emission, fuel efficient, and this is one of the key considerations when buying hybrid cars.
Another beauty of hybrid cars are is that they recharge their batteries while being driven. This literally removes the necessity of plugging the car for electricity. Unlike pure electric cars, which need to be plugged into wall sockets to be recharged.
Speak The Lingo. Prospective buyers should attempt to achieve some level of understanding with terms related in buying hybrid cars. For instance, according to the California Air Resources Board, Ultra Low-Emission Vehicle is a car with 50 percent cleaner emission and a Super Ultra Low-Emission Vehicle emits 90 % cleaner. There are zero-emission cars however, are purely electric vehicles, not hybrid cars. But pure electric cars are currently still rather cost ineffective and impractical for full scale production.
Your Lifestyle and Travel Needs. When buying hybrid cars, you should consider your work and home locations. Most Hybrid cars are made for urban or suburban travel. Short trips are most suitable for fuel savings, when hybrid cars are using electric engines at low RPMs. Conversely, driving on a highway or interstate travel won’t see much of the expected fuel reduction.
When is the Price Right. The other consideration for consumer before finally buying hybrid cars is the cost. Hybrid cars, are priced higher than gas-powered counterparts due to the fact that production of hybrid cars are still in low numbers and has more mechanically complex to build. But bear in mind that the upfront higher cost of your hybrid will be eventually offset over the long term by fuel saving due to higher fuel efficiency.
Tax Incentives Helps. Buying hybrid cars at present is encouraged by the Federal State, due to the long term benefits of limiting fuel usage. There several tax deduction for new buyers of hybrid cars. Several cities are offering free parking as an additional incentive for low-emissions vehicles. This list of considerations above is by no mean exhaustive. We have examined the factors from broad perspectives.
There is however, one key criterion you need to seriously consider when making your buying decision, namely how a Hybrid car fit into your lifestyle and travelling habits, whether you as an urbanite or a trans-state person is critical in buying that hybrid car..
While it is a fact that Environmentally friendly hybrid cars will be the new future vehicles of today’s roads, the greater question is, are you game for it yet?
Joey Lee has 17 years of business & marketing experience in the Insurance & Banking Industry, holds an Executive MBA, and a Platinum Ezine Author. Get the latest eco friendly hybrid green cars info at Environmentally Friendly Cars and much more at CngCar.org
Canon BX-20 Black Refilled Environmentally Friendly Ink Cartridge
June 22, 2010 by admin
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This printer ink cartridge works with: (RE-BX20)GO GREEN! Your Complete Guide to Being Environmentally Friendly
June 21, 2010 by admin
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The GO GREEN! Your Complete Guide to Being Environmentally Friendly Book for the Kindle contains valuable tips and information on how you can save money while saving the environment, such as how to reduce energy use at home, reducing the use of paper products, transportation, lawn care and organic gardening, and many tips on personal products, such as bottled drinking water, use of oils, sunscreens and aerosols, and MUCH more!We are pleased to offer thousands of Books for the Kindle. Click on our Editor Name (eBook-Ventures) next to the book title above to view all of the titles that are currently available.
Elementree Environmentally Friendly Manila File Folders, Letter Size, 1/3 Cut, Manila,72 Count
June 20, 2010 by admin
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- Made with premium-grade paper stock from 100% renewable, SFI-certified wood fiber
- Produced with minimal production and paper waste from the integral, unique, organic shapes
- Packaged with paper made from certified, 100% renewable wood fiber
- Fit all interior filing cabinets and other filing systems
Product Description
Elementree (R) brand filing products, unlike many competitor filing products, are Made in the USA. Each is made with 100% renewable wood fiber from certified and responsibly-managed North American forests. Because they are made with renewable fiber, they support the reforestation of North America and support a truly sustainable environment. On average, within the wood and paper industry, 2 trees are planted for every 1 harvested in making these Elementree filing products. More trees harvested from independently certified and responsibly-managed forests mean a greener, healthier North America: a lower carbon footprint and improvement in air quality. They are SFI (Sustainable Forestry Initiative) chain-of-custody certified. These durable, heavyweight file folders are reusable, reducing the need for replacement folders and can, if desired, be recycled as well.Environmentally Friendly Printing
June 17, 2010 by admin
Filed under Going GreenWith the threat of global warming and CO2 emissions on the rise, environmental concern has become a daily subject with many companies marketing their “green” qualifications.
One industry in particular that has been investing big in environmentally friendly techniques is the printing industry; where many companies are modifying their printing processes in order to work under the “Green Printing” label.
Green Printing is an environmentally friendly printing process that uses natural inks, recycled papers and energy conservation.
Like in many industries, there are lots of companies working or marketing their “green services” saying how environmentally friendly they are, but only those companies with certifications from national and international agencies are allowed to market such labels.
Accreditations from The Programme for Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes (PEFC), the Forest Stewardship Council and The Sustainable Forestry Initiative help to ensure the printing process is environmentally friendly.
One of the most renowned accreditations for the printing industry is the ISO 14001 environmental management standards. This accreditation is an international specification, aimed to establish an organized approach to systematically reduce the impact of the environmental aspects which an organization can control.
But there is more the printing and publishing industries can do to endorse their Green printing services; they can take part on campaigns like the Woodland Trust and become members of the Ride2Work Scheme, these are campaigns based in the UK.
The Woodland Trust is the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity which has an ambitious children’s tree planting project launched in the UK, with plans to help plant 12 million trees over the next five years.
While the Ride2Work is a government initiative to help reduce company’s carbon footprint, also known as the Green Transport Plan, it also aimed to make cycling more attractive and more accessible by taking advantage of some unique tax incentives.
Green Printer is an environmentally friendly printing expert working along side with Gemini Press
Russia : Environmentally friendly economy
June 17, 2010 by admin
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The environment and the economy do not contradict each other. A properly functioning economy is an environmentally friendly economy. Remember WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY – June 5 Read More : www.facebook.comEnvironmentally Friendly Print Design – How to Save the Planet and Look Good
June 16, 2010 by admin
Filed under Going GreenThe printing industry is notoriously bad for the environment, right? Noxious chemicals dripping into rivers, forests cut down to produce monumental amounts of useless direct mail, not to mention wasteful graphic designers twatting about in their 4×4′s and SUVs, there is however an alternative…
Think about pdfs or html e-mails instead of Junkmail
The next time somebody suggests carpet bombing a town with a deluge of trifold a4 brochures, think about the money you would save getting a web designer or family friend with some design skill to put together a targeted html e-mail campaign or a visual pdf that can be sent out to people by e-mail. At the end of the day its all destined for the wastebin so you might as well try and save a tree along the way
Repair, Reuse, Recycle those designs
In the esteemed words of Bob the Builder, why chuck away something when it can be reused or recycled? The same dictum applies to graphic design. Instead of carelessly discarding a logo design you submitted for a client a couple of years ago, simply add a little blend in adobe photoshop or illustrator and re submit it for another customer.
How big are your design carbon footprints?
Within a short few years, the government will be insisting all companies and businesses track their individual carbon footprints in a token effort to reach out to green voters. What this means is essentially every time you flush the toilet, chuck away a scrap of paper or set fire to a mattress in your back garden, you are going to have to be accountable for your actions and plant a tree for your sins. Why not get ahead of the game now and buy up a large swath of prime rain forest in brazil and sell carbon credits to less responsible businesses?
Sustainable print materials
These days there is no reason to use pulped rain forest paper to produce your brochure designs and elegant business folders. Most printers will be able to source FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) approved paper for printing. Also vegetable based inks are now common place and not as bad as that might sound providing you are only looking for brown and green based design. Although yellow peppers and tomatoes could be used for more warmer colours
So there you have it, you could carry on throwing litter on the floor, burning your used car tyres and pouring poisonous printing chemicals into local ponds but think of the children, won’t somebody think of the children. Wouldn’t the world be that litter bit better if you didn’t?
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